Dark ages
OPINION: Before we all let The Green Party have at it with their 'bold' emissions reduction plan, the Hound thought…
Dairy farmers wanting new consents from Horizons Regional Council (HRC) look set to struggle to meet the new criteria for these.
Chaos again prevails over the future of resource consents in the Horizons Regional Council region because of an Environment Court judgement on the implementation of its controversial One Plan.
Being a dairy farmer and an environmentalist, I have been perplexed by the banter and politicking over the regional council's One Plan implementation.
Farmers and Horizons Regional Council were for years at each other’s throats over the infamous One Plan and the council’s stance seen by some as anti-farming.
HORIZONS REGIONAL Council’s plan for implementing its controversial One Plan is a “step in the right direction’, says a Federated Farmers leader.
SHARON SHANNON and her husband Bevan are organic dairy farmers near Ekatahuna. They run 370 cows on their 140ha farm.
CLAIMS OF major economic harm to the Tararua district, farmer stress and a lack of trust were some of the allegations levelled at Horizons Regional Council (HRC) at a public meeting last week in Dannevirke.
HORIZONS ONE Plan is the biggest potential constraint to the development of agriculture in Manawatu, according to a wide-ranging economic report on the subject.
HORIZONS ONE Plan is the biggest potential constraint to the development of agriculture in Manawatu, according to a wide-ranging economic report on the subject.
Farmers are aghast an independent analysis commissioned by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), for a Land & Water Forum (LawF) working group, has revealed the shocking impact of the Horizons One Plan upon agriculture.
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OPINION: The Feds' latest banking survey shows that bankers are even less popular with farmers than they used to be,…